Hi Christoph-- Thanks for the reply. The original input files are, in total, about 500MB. They are jpegs. There are about 150 of them. One per page. There's no text, just 1 photo per page. In scribus, I set the the resolution of every photo to about 300dpi. Scribus properties for each image shows Actual X-DPI and Actual Y-DPI of 300 to 330 depending on the photo.
I figure gs will resample down to 300, so I wasn't too worried about the 330dpi. I do not know why Scribus makes a 2GB PDF file. If there is another way that I should be specifying 300dpi for each image in Scribus, please let me know. I'm exporting to PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6). I've tried setting colors for Screen/Web and Printer. The Printer option makes even larger PDF files (about 2.5GB as compared to 2GB for screen/web). Bill On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 13:54:30 schrieb Bill Wheaton: >> Hello List: I'm a new user to Scribus. Have been using it to lay out a >> photo book and I have some file size issues. >> >> I need to output the book to pdf to upload to the printing service. Since >> the pdf is so huge, there's a tip on the printer's (viovio.com) website >> suggesting that ghostscript be used to knock down the file size to make it >> more manageable. This all works fine until the size of the >> scribus-generated PDF file gets larger than 2GB. At that point the >> ghostscript pass-through fails. It happens consistently when the PDF is >> bigger than 2GB and never happens if the PDF is less than 2GB. >> >> I'm not sure whether the problem is with the PDF or with ghostscript, so >> I'm looking for help/troubleshooting advice. If no one can identify a >> problem on the Scribus end, then I'll send inquiries to the ghostscript >> crowd next. >> >> The ghostscript command will knock a 1.9GB PDF file generated by Scribus >> down to less than 300MB which is very helpful. But any PDF bigger than >> 2GB fails when passed through ghostscript >> >> Here's the setup: >> Mac OS 10.6.2 >> Scribus 1.3.6 >> Ghostscript 8.71 >> >> Here's the ghostscript command: >> gs-8.71-macosx -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 >> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr >> -dGrayImageResolution=600 -dMonoImageResolution=1200 >> -dColorImageResolution=300 -sOutputFile=vol_iv_gs.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f >> vol_iv.pdf >> >> Here's the error: >> >> PL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) >> Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. >> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. >> **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. >> **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused >> **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. >> **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. > > Hi Bill, > > I'm not sure about the gs side of things, but how on earth did you manage to > create a PDF of that size? I assume you used a lot of high-resultion images, > which is probably unnecessary, especially since you mentioned a book. Try to > scale down the images to 300 dpi. > > HTH > > Christoph
